TheBarber

Who Will Monetize Cloud Computing and Why?

Who will monetize cloud computing? One could reasonably argue that Google and Amazon already have. Many others will, but one company that almost will certainly not, or at best minimally, is Sun Microsystems. Schwartz and his crew of yes men have not monetized Java, and they've had more than 15 years to do so. The people in charge of their virtualization program are pure political animals who cannot execute to save their lives. Rather than worrying about the likes of IBM and HP, their attention, what little there is of it, is consumed by internecine discord.

The Barber, the man Schwartz fears most

IBM Wins Supercomputing 'Bakeoff'

Personally, I'm betting that Pony Tail Boy and his sycophantic crew will succeed in driving this stock back down to its pre-4-to-1-reverse-spl... single-digit trading range. Wouldn't it be nice to have some real courage on the Board? Rather, paralyzed by contumely, they regularly shirk their fiduciary responsibility. McNealy is the worst of them. Schwartz won the Big Prize by being the best suck up of the bunch of them. The edifice is rotten through and through.

The Barber, the man Schwartz fears most

Google, IBM, Red Hat, Sun and the Digistan Connection

As entertaining as this thread had been (and it has been), what I do not find to be entertaining is that the executive management clowns at JAVA have managed to wipe out about 50% of shareholder equity in just over a year.

Dear Sun Board of Directors, how long can you continue to support Schwartz and his clique? It's time to clean house yet again.

Sun Still Clings to Java Dominance Pitch

Speaking of Neil Young, did you see that he just had a species of spider named after him? Yup. Myrmekiaphila neilyoungi, to be precise.

Given that Jonathan Schwartz paid himself $13.5 million last year and just announced 1500 to 2500 hundred more layoffs at Sun, I suppose if someone were to name anything after him, it would have to be a species of leech.

Sun Still Clings to Java Dominance Pitch

It was just great to see Jonathan Schwartz and Rich Green cavorting on stage with Neil Young. But what I am wondering is: What are they doing to prevent more layoffs?

Can Sun Rise Again?

There is one little problem with this sunny prediction: The so-called executive management team now comfortably ensconced in the top roles, have never, ever made a dime for the company. They are, to an individual, software guys, and the only people who have ever made money for Sun were systems guys. The latter are all gone, after several years of seeing the current crowd getting promoted well past their levels of competence, culminating in their assumption of the ultimate power positions. The last of the systems guys, David Yen, left a few weeks ago. With him departed the company's last, best chance for executive improvement from within. Time to start looking outside.

Mark Hurd, up for a real challenge???

Sun Goes Down With Its Legacy Businesses

Rikky1--

If I understand this correctly, there is a way to mitigate the problem you delineate for T(n) processors. You employ Logical Domains (LDoms), assign some number of threads to each domain, have a single instance of Solaris running in a domain, and have Solaris do your process scheduling for you. That's a pretty effective way of taming otherwise not-well-threaded applications.

Shareholders unite! While you still have something left to lose!

Jonathan must go!

Sun Goes Down With Its Legacy Businesses

The people responsible for the Open Source strategy--the current so-called executive management team--have never made a penny. Anyone who thought that somehow, miraculously, that would change have been downright intentionally delusional. It's time for accountantability here, and that's the responsibility of the Board of Directors. Short of that, SMI would benefit from an outright shareholders revolt!

Shareholders unite! You have nothing much left to lose!